In the 1929 film Pandora’s Box, who played Lulu?

In the 1929 film Pandora’s Box, Louise Brooks played Lulu.

Pandora’s Box is a German silent film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst. Brooks plays Lulu, a charismatic and destructive figure whose relationships and choices drive the drama. The film is based primarily on Frank Wedekind’s plays Erdgeist and Die Büchse der Pandora, rather than directly adapting the ancient Greek myth.

Brooks’s performance became one of the defining screen roles of the silent era. The film was not an immediate universal success, but later restoration and critical reassessment established it as a major work of Weimar-era cinema. Its title creates a mythological association, while its story centers on Wedekind’s Lulu rather than the Greek Pandora.